I am Florian, florian is Dutch and Florian is he/him. I tend to talk about a myriad of different things, including #accessibility, #linguistics, #infoSec, #music, #programming and #gaming. Also #books, loads of books. Twitch streamer, LGBTQIA+-friendly and, oh right, fully #blind, as well. Anything more would be telling.
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Last Notes npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…lter oh you absolutely do, you just wouldn't think so given how little the people aspect gets the attention it deserves these days. We comply so we don't get sued, but a lot of companies seem to not realize, or forget, that people sue because they get stuck or can't complete an action. Make people happy, your chance at a lawsuit goes way down. Of course that leaves room for the ADA trolls but that's a different discussion npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I just posted a LinkedIn post about doing #accessibility for ... y'know .. the actual people affected rather than making those the secondary focus below compliance, metrics and dashboards. The comparison of playing a piano with a clipboard may have been made. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…awd8 Notepad? .vcf to my knowledge is just a text file npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…awd8 lol rule one of asking for programming help: "isn't working" is about the most annoying description of a problem you can share. What did you try? What error did you get? etc. etc. :P npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I tried to read this. I had to read past several advertisements while doing so, and was finally dismayed to read I had to start a free trial to read the story about the reading crisis and the fact people don't read anymore. I find this delightfully ironic. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…awd8 maybe an odd question but where is the handwritten content coming from? Like ...is this a person you can ask to perhaps type instead, or try to write more computer-fonty? I think a lot of bills and such these days are printed so I'm curious npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…awd8 ehh honestly the handwritten bit is the tricky part there. Like sure there's plenty of OCR-only tools, heck you could snap a clear picture of it and OCR that with NVDA, but if the handwriting is bad, or just far away from what we'd consider computery, that may very well not work great npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Yeah sorry, but no. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Lichess has always been the most #accessible #chess website for #blind #screenreader users. You can play games there, analyze them, even do puzzles. What you can't do, though, is learn the absolute basics there. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Nice, just released an update to my Yu-gi-oh Duel Links #accessibility mod that makes the game so much easier to play for screen reader users! #winning npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…awd8 @nprofile…lvgx generally no, my streams often have visuals so just an audio stream isn't something I have looked into. I ... think ... there's some kind of way to get RSS feeds of Youtube channels, or at least there used to be. Perhaps that might be of some use? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…lvgx @nprofile…awd8 Honestly all oopinions aside I find it rather amusing that a so-called accessibility advocate signed off on an infographic without alt text. ALso, their understanding of screen readers appears to be fundamentally flawed. I'll cover this one on stream in half an hour :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…xa9x First thing I saw on BlueSky was an independent living foundation posting image without alt text, and when called out they indicated it was Hootsuite's fault, which tells me this is likely the one alted image they sent out this year npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Considering showing off some actual #accessibility related work with #AI adjacent tech for #GAAD on stream Thursday to put my money where my mouth is and actually show off what a person who's meant to benefit from all this does with it. Give a bit of pushback to the whole " look, we made tool so your ass is legally covered" crowd. Good idea? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Want a freebie? Sure, I can do that! npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT: npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian During this year's "Games for blind gamers" jam on #itchIO, a #game was submitted that tried to accurately portray a #blind protagonist. This game was developed by a developer who is not blind, but believed to have done adequate research into this. Some people did not agree and came down on them rather hard, but I saw an opportunity. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian The consensus seems to be that yes, this is broken, and no, there's not really any way around it for the moment. Also no, nobody's really fixing it. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I was helping an open-source app become more #accessible yesterday and we ran into the problem that it looks like #screenReader Orca has a bit of a tendency to crash when exposed to webkitGTK applications. I've not done Desktop #linux for a long time and have no idea what the workarounds for this would be, does anyone know anyone who might know what's happening here? Do we need to set a random environment variable somewhere or update a specific package so this person can do basic screen reader testing on their app? #tech #openSource #screenReaders #linux #GTK #webdev npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…wtal @nprofile…8fzu Personally, I feel it's the language :P Making a sentence where everything agrees with each other and where you still get to play fast and loose with word order AND mostly have it make sense to the listener must be some kind of micro-dopamine hit every time it happens haha npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…wtal Cool! :) Congrats on taking that step. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…wtal I'd just like you to know that I saw this post zip by without looking at it closely, and I initially thought you said "the happening has potatoed". How's that for a misheard lyric? :P npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian SO uhh ... we can just use #AI to do #altText right? Just a matter of prompting, right? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…t2xr that last thing is actually a good thing as Ableton's plugin support, particularly for third party, isn't always the greatest. So with Ableton you should be good for the most part. Specific things you are having trouble with? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…t2xr Not sure if it'd help you necessarily but I'd say the Ableton Access podcast is currently the most comprehensive set of resources for Ableton with a screen reader, in that it covers the widest amount of ground. Outside of that you're probably best off finding tutorials on what you're having trouble with in non-screen reader-specific resources and seeing to what degree you can use the info from them. In a pinch, supplementing ableton with another tool that does things Ableton can't currently do accessibly might not be a terrible idea npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I do feel I need to nuance that this isn't aimed at "just" anyone (yeah, yeah, I'll cut out the just thing). The underlying thought is true though: People, particularly a subset of the #fedi, are VERY quik to tell people to "just XYZ". #accessibility aside this is almost never a "just" to the person you're talking to, and the person in question is going to get their feathers ruffled by you indicating what they may have actually already tried to do, for days, is a "just" to you. Feel the urge to tell someone to "just" do something? Stop, think, and maybe just don't. ALl you gotta do is just think from somebody else's perspective for a change. nNothin' to it, right? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I am getting really tired of that word 'Just" in these kinds of rants. For a huge amount of people, there's no such thing as "just switch", because in a lot of cases these people are considered "just" a minority that are "just" so difficult to keep in mind when developing these alternatives, I bet I only "just" made you think of them again "just" now. So with all due respect, kindly "just" f*ck off telling me what I should "Just" switch to until #accessibility actually "just" works. Until then, "just" do better at being "just". Ok? Can we do that? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa hyvää nimipäivää! :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…pye9 works fine-ish here. I'm getting odd invalid path errors, but I'd say clone verbosely and see what the errors if any are npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian A: "Hey I just noticed that on your website, feature X doesn't work" npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa It started out as me misremembering it as actually being jyväskyllä and it became this whole extended lore where hyväskyllä is really short for "jyväskylä: hyvä? s! Kyllä", complete with set pieces and a commercial around that exchange. I've been told multiple times I should go represent you guys because I keep coming up with stuff like this by complete accident npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa hah, I've been driving a certain person crazy with crosslinguistical puns like this for months :P Most notably deliberately typoing hyväskyllä because that should totally be a slogan :P npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa ahh, but did you finish it ? Or did you Finnish it? :P npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…gk57 the one that always stuck with me, impure because spaces/punctuation, is "dammit I'm mad" npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa It always felt like an odd cost fallacy expression to me... like ... I must lean into the decisions I've made by deriting others who didn't make that decision, in order to justify the time/effort I myself put in against the inaction of others, maybe? It's an odd thing and I wish it didn't pop up as often as it does... npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…pye9 @nprofile…fh0p Yep, Jitsi, Peertube and Joplin are definitely on the list, so's NextCloud. Considering some of Proton's offerings, maybe... npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa I think you are, honestly. Particularly in the case of social networks, I think it's tricky to just decide to "quit" if you can't get your actual social network, the people you talk/hang out with, to quit along with you. If Threads is where your loved ones are, just deciding to quit is difficult because you'll essentially just become a hermit. As a fully blind individual, I run into the problem that a lot of alternatives that aren't commercialized up to the gills just don't have enough #accessibility features to allow me to be productive, and while that's all fixable (FOSS), I can only do so much on my own :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian hyvää Johannusta, suomalaiset ystäväni :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa THis may be a left-field suggestion but have you thought of picking up an instrument? For some it can be a great way to ground, but it's not a great fit for everybody npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…lslt do we know to what degree #accessibility was kept in mind while making this? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I've been watching a bunch of #fedi rhetoric go back and forth and it's sort of amusing to see the ... duality of it. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I know maston as a whole hates #AI but I'm curious. Has anyone actually gotten any ... good results with GitHub #coPilot dedicated chat where you give it multiple files/your entire workspace? I feel like everytime I try it just provides a bunch of garbage output that doesn't remotely do what I asked, and yes, AI = bad, I should know better, boo boo boo, but it does make me wonder if it DOES work well for anyone npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…jpfa Did you know Sanoma, the Finnish publisher, in particular their learning division is a big player here in the Netherlands? I helped them out with some accessibility demos last year, which was actually my first meeting with the #Finnish #language. I had to figure out how to pronounce all the words in their educational portals so I could tell them their labeling was wrong 😂 npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian I kind of love that we always see "it really doesn't matter which instance you join, just pick one! It's just like email ..." and then there's posts like this that by their mere presence just prove that sorry, no, it isn't. Not even remotely. #whoops npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @nprofile…xcsy you may already know this but in a pinch, recent macs do charge over USB-C as well providded the power source is strong enough. 45w power brick or higher should do it npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian Here's an idea for those #fedi evangelists that want more people to show up: maybe don't hate on them for being where they are now? npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @npub1cmg…rzd2 huh. I had no idea a movie was made about him.This'll be fun to word mine :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @npub16mz…hm5n I believe one thing the update did is add some kind of Windows Studio thing on audo, probably turn-offable , I just don't know where. try the sound icon in quick settings, that kind of stuff tends to hang out there :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @npub1qep…hklj ooh you're in for a treat, I love that game :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @npub12j3…y6qj @npub1cmg…rzd2 @npub15n0…lmzc Right, I think that's a good way to do it. I read a post the other week from someone who used the hashtag and got cussed out for using it while not being blind, which to me is odd because I, as a blind person, have never actually considered that hashtag to be blind-only, on the contrary in fact. So ... while I like the fediverse it can feel a bit like you'll piss somebody off no matter what you do, at times :) npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian As a fully #blind #developer myself I am of two minds on this. If this was a world in which I could have nice things, i'm all for this. An AI that styles stuff for me so I don't have to? Yes, please. My #CSS is dreadful and I simply don't have the bandwidth to improve it at present. npub1yk09uemx6pms87xa4dc64886gzl5ccehp5zxtkvgw4cvvxyf88jq2tfk7s Florian @npub17df…m5wm pretty sure its officially officially still kind of alive, but I doubt it actually is still being worked on
